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 Gifted and Talented Associations (Australian)
Links to Australian State Gifted and Talented Associations
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Policies and Syllabuses (Australian)
Links to state policies and syllubuses on gifted education
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A Comparison of Assessment Techniques in the Identification of Gifted Learners
This Gifted Development Centre web page puts together various research articles about identifying gifted learners as presented at the Symposium for the World Council for Gifted Children.
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/About_GDC/symposium.htm |
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A Nation Deceived
The Templeton National Report on Acceleration: "How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students". Landmark paper, in two volumes, highlighting the inadequacies in identifying and catering for gifted students in the American education system. Free download.
http://nationdeceived.org/ |
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An Overview of Issues in Assessing Gifted Children
Recent paper by Linda Silverman including discussion about the different psychological testing tools available.
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/PDF_files/Assessment%20of%20Gifted%20Children.pdf |
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Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented Ltd (Australian)
Australia's national gifted association.
http://www.aaegt.net.au/index.htm |
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Australian Mensa - Gifted Links (Australian)
Mensa is an association for social interaction and mental challange for people who rank in the top 2% of the population in intelligence tests. This page is their list of links to information on giftedness.
http://www.au.mensa.org/giftedlinks.html |
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Baby Centre
A very popular general parenting website. Useful mailing lists for month-by-month information on the development of your children. Active discussion groups.
http://www.babycenter.com/ |
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Behind The News (Australian)
Be sure to click on "Teachers" and check out the activity sheets. From the site: "Informing and entertaining Australian school children for more than 30 years. Behind the News is a high-energy fun way for upper primary and secondary students to learn about current issues and events in their world."
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/btn/ |
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Characteristics of Young Gifted Children (Australian)
A great overview provided by the Queensland Association, describing various observable characteristics of young gifted children.
http://www.qagtc.org.au/char_ygc.htm |
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Child Link (Australian)
Initiated in Northern Sydney / Central Coast, here is the summary from the website: "Unifying children’s services in our support of families as we work together to enhance the development of the children in our community…because children’s services are a fundamental aspect of quality childhood experiences."
http://www.childlink.com.au/ |
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Clever Kids Consultancy (Australian)
Based in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, this site links to various interesting resources such as publications and further websites.
http://www.cleverkidsconsultancy.com/ |
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Education - Keeping Them Honest (Australian)
Stemming from one family's frustration with establishing suitable education for their gifted child, this very well maintained blog "has been created to provide an opportunity for parents and students to discuss test results and Educational issues and experiences. It will also provide my family with an avenue to present details, documentation and information in relation to serious allegations of neglect, bias, victimisation and manipulation of test scores formally made against the NSW Department of Education that are currently being covered up."
http://jolandachallita.typepad.com/education/ |
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Educational Assessment Australia (UNSW) (Australian)
From the site: "Educational Assessment Australia (EAA) is a leading national and international educational assessment organisation, specialising in large-scale assessment programs". The site has resources for teachers, schools, parents and children, including sample assessment papers.
http://www.eaa.unsw.edu.au/ |
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Eide Neurolearning Blog
Blog maintained by the authors of the Neurolearning site - Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide
http://www.eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/ |
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Emotionally Mature or Emotionally Intense? (Australian)
An article by Lesley Sword which explores the little known fact that "giftedness has an emotional as well as a cognitive substructure: cognitive complexity giving rise to emotional depth."
http://giftedservices.com.au/handouts/Emotionally%20Intense%20or%20Immature.rtf |
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Enchanted Learning
Hundreds - if not thousands - of printable worksheets, and online information, for children aged preschool to primary.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com |
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Encourage Learning (Australian)
Encourage Learning is the point of reference for Janelle McDonald, education consultant and advocate for the gifted. Janelle consults Australia-wide with specific interests in giftedness and home schooling.
http://www.encouragelearning.com |
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Genius Denied
Homepage for the book of the same name (subtitled "How to stop wasting our brightest young minds"). For starters you can sign up for the newsletter, check out one of the co-author's blogs, find out where 'giftedness' has featured in recent media articles, access high quality articles on giftedness and of course, preview the book.
http://www.geniusdenied.com/ |
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Gerric (Australian)
Gifted Education Research Resource and Information Centre (of the UNSW)
http://gerric.arts.unsw.edu.au/ |
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Gifted 2003 - A Celebration Downunder (15th World Conference, Adelaide, South Australia) (Australian)
The Gifted and Talented Children's Association of South Australia hosted the 15th World Conference in 2003. This page at the Queensland Association website, links to the presentations and papers made available after this event.
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Gifted Canada
Extensive information, references and links on a variety of topics.
http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/giftedcanada/ynggift.html |
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Gifted Development
Directed by Dr Linda Silverman, the US-based Gifted Development Centre has been supporting giftedness since 1979. From the site, they "provide in-depth assessment, counseling, consulting services and innovative materials"
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/ |
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Gifted Education In Australia (Schools Directory) (Australian)
Shaun Hately's directory of Australian schools which cater for gifted students is good in what it does do - which is to put the contact information of many schools into once place together with a summary of how they cater for gifted students. Schools are listed alphabetically (at state level), but menus are provided which group them into geographic districts, affiliation (eg Gov, Anglican, etc) and grade levels taught. However, be aware that it is possible the page has excluded schools which do in fact now cater, or cater better, for gifted children. The 2001 copyright notice implies that even the listed information about catering to giftedness may be out of date.
http://home.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/schoolsinaus.html |
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Gifted Resources (Australian)
From the website, "Gifted Resources is like... a bookshop,,, a library,,, a news service... a service locator... a help/advice line"
http://www.giftedresources.org |
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Gifted-Children.com.au (Where Like Minds Meet) (Australian)
I only stumbled across this site as I was building this list of links. My brief investigation shows not much activity, but several resources and links.
http://www.gifted-children.com.au/ |
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Greg Smith Resources
A personal website with a sizeable list of links to gifted resources including lessons and activities
http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/for_gifted.html |
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Hawker Brownlow Education (Australian)
Family-based wholly Australian publisher of quality teacher resources with a list of over 2500 titles. Supplier of innovative books, which are cutting edge, classroom focused, and embedded with thinking skills, problem solving, critical and creative thinking, leadership skills, practical multiple intelligence instruction, learning styles and ICT resources
http://www.hbe.com.au/ |
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Hoagies Gifted Education Page
Very large website on all things gifted. Many other gifted websites will link to this one.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/ |
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Home Education Association Inc (Australian)
Not specifically a website on giftedness, but home education is often an option that parents of gifted children consider. This is an Australian site and an excellent place to start if you need information on what's involved with home schooling. Also an excellent resource for building up contacts with other parents and/or professionals who are involved with home schooling.
http://www.hea.asn.au/ |
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Home Education in Victoria (Australian)
From the website: "Homeschooling works! ... Our aim is to provide support and information for people wishing to educate their children from a home base."
http://www.home-ed.vic.edu.au/ |
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Iowa Acceleration Scale (Review)
The Iowa Acceleration Scale is a guide (for parents and educators) for whole grade acceleration in years K-8. This link is to a review by Carolyn K on the Hoagies website, where she summarizes that "these scales turn a subjective decision - grade acceleration - into an objective decision".
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/iowa_accel_scale.htm |
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Neurolearning
Understanding different ways of thinking from a neurological context, and using this knowledge to improve teaching relationships.
http://neurolearning.com/ |
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Nexus (Australian)
Proceedings from the 1996 national conference of the Australian Association for the education of the gifted and talented. Includes 42 conference papers.
http://www.nexus.edu.au/teachstud/gat/gat.htm |
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OGTOC: Our Gifted and Talented Online Conferences
A Yahoo Group which acts exclusively as a mailing list. Throughout the year, OGTOC runs 1, 2 or 3 day conferences with guest presenters and then a huge amount of online discussion by hundreds of virtual attendees.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OGTOC/ |
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Overexcitability and the Gifted (Social and Emotional Issues)
This article by Sharon Lind, at the SENG website looks in depth at overexcitability (psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational and emotional - with parenting strategies for each) amongst the gifted.
http://www.sengifted.org/articles_social/Lind_OverexcitabilityAndTheGifted.shtml |
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Oz Gifted (Australian)
Oz Gifted was founded by one of the co-founders of the NSW Association of Gifted and Talented Children (NSWAGTC) (although they are not formally affiliated with each other, the founder hosts the NSWAGTC site). Oz Gifted is an online forum.
http://www.nswagtc.org.au/ozgifted/index.html |
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Parents - Your Gifted Child: A Weekend Information Course (Australian)
This is the info page for the course which gave rise to this group.
http://gerric.arts.unsw.edu.au/prnt_yrch.html |
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Print Activities
Be sure to click on "Teachers" and check out the activity sheets. From the site: Informing and entertaining Australian school children for more than 30 years.
http://www.printactivities.com |
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Resource Reviews at giftedfamilies (this group) (Mixed)
Resources (such as books, computer and board games, videos, locations, etc) for gifted children and their parents.
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/giftedfamilies/database?method=reportRows&tbl=3 |
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SENG: Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
Very comprehensive, SENG was founded in 1981. From the website: "SENG is dedicated to fostering environments in which gifted adults and children, in all their diversity, understand and accept themselves and are understood, valued, nurtured, and supported by their families, schools, workplaces and communities."
http://www.sengifted.org/about_history.shtml |
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Special Needs of Gifted Children
Julie Osborn, Ph.D., writing for the Youth Mental Health Update newsletter for the Schneider Children's Hospital, presents a short introduction to giftedness followed by a discussion of some very real issues faced by young gifted children entering the school system. If you needed a concise referenced summary as to why you feel your concerns as a parent of a gifted child starting school are justified, this article may make a good start.
http://schoolnet.lij.edu/eshare/files/1_gifted.html |
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The Gifted Puzzle (Australian)
The Gifted Puzzle is an Australian DVD which interviews families with gifted children on a range of topics.
http://www.aaegt.net.au/info_giftedpuzzle.html |
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The Precocious Child
This website, which collects together several links to online resources, is "dedicated to those who are trying to educate highly, exceptionally or profoundly gifted children at home, whether it be full time home learning or as supplement to their school education."
http://www.precocity.org/ |
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Visual Spatial Resource
Comprehensive articles, research, resources, etc. From the site: "Visual-spatial learners think in pictures rather than in words. They do not learn from repetition and drill. They are whole-part learners who need to see the big picture first before they learn the details. They arrive at correct solutions without taking steps, so “show your work” may be impossible for them."
http://www.visualspatial.org/index.htm |
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WISC-III / WPPSI-R vs SB L-M
This page on the Hoagies site presents a table of (voluntarily submitted, real) results for three common psychological tests for giftedness - the WISC III (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children version 3) and/or WPPSI-R (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, revised edition) versus the SB L-M (Stanford-Binet form L-M).
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/wisc_vs_sb_l-m.htm |
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Wikipedia - definition of "gifted"
Wikipedia is a community-maintained online encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giftedness |
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